Note in 2025:

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A short video clip (14 MB) which gives a nice indication of our work in progress has been circulating in gaming web sites lately.  Since it leaked sometime during the summer vacation it spread like wildfire, and now that everyone in the MMORPG gaming community has seen it, I guess I can go ahead and mention it.  I assure you that everything in this video clip is actual game functionality, nothing has been faked or scripted especially for the purpose of filming it.

A player carrying a staff enters the human capital through the main city gate and sees a number of other players who are already in the city, playing around and duelling each other.  One of them is seen casting an “insect swarm” spell.  (Everyone’s health has been set to some extremely high value for testing purposes.)  As soon as he enters through the gate, the player anounces his presence by shooting a huge fireball, (again, the effect is tremendously exaggerated just for the fun of it,) and when the other players see this, they all turn against him and start slashing him with their swords, pushing him back out of the city.

In the 3D world you can see some really nice graphics and features, like flags waving in the breeze, the detail of the ballustrades and chains on either side of the drawbridge, the smoke coming out of the smokestacks, the very finely detailed trees, etc.  You can hardly tell due to the low quality of the screencap, but the banners hanging from the towers on either side of the main entrance are also slowly waving, the clouds in the sky are moving, etc.  On the 2D GUI, (which is what I have been mostly working on,) you can see the hotbar on the left, the chat window along the bottom, the health and stamina box in the bottom-right corner, and the minimap in the top-right corner.  These are all going to undergo changes before the final release of the game, especially the minimap. Of course since this is an MMORPG there is a lot more GUI which pops up depending on the circumstances.

Here is the discussion thread about the video clip at the official Darkfall Online forums.

I am not hosting the clip on my web site, but here is a number of sites from which it can be downloaded (use the one which yields the fastest download for you:)

from the-combine.net (direct download: here)
from guildvsguild.com (direct download:  here)
from bloodofkings.net (direct download: here)